"How English football became a golden magnet for billionaire owners and millionaire players from every corner of the earth... at the cost of 96 lives
English football is different today.
| Professional Police Officers: Doing nothing, as usual |
The stadiums are home to middle-class families watching pre-match entertainment from comfortable seats and corporate clients sipping chilled wine over three-course meals in plush boxes. Potent symbols of the most lucrative brand in global sporting history.
Twenty years ago our grounds didn't smell of wealth and fine cuisine but resentment, from fans fenced into crumbling terraces by law- makers who viewed them as an unruly mob.
Twenty years ago our grounds didn't smell of wealth and fine cuisine but resentment, from fans fenced into crumbling terraces by law- makers who viewed them as an unruly mob.
Their potential for tribal violence, not their consumer rights, were uppermost in politicians' minds. Crowd control, not crowd safety, the guiding principles of police charged with keeping them in check.
In those decrepit sheds, many of which had changed little since the Victorians built them, a tragedy was waiting to happen...."
read on...http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/hillsborough-documents-released-brian-reade-1318730
In those decrepit sheds, many of which had changed little since the Victorians built them, a tragedy was waiting to happen...."
read on...http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/hillsborough-documents-released-brian-reade-1318730
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